Tagged: morgan stanley

March 22, 2021 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The researchers at Bloqport have confirmed that only a month after launch, the first-ever Bitcoin ETF has reached $1 billion CAD in assets under management or AUM (as of March 20, 2021). Just one month after launch, the first ever #Bitcoin ETF has hit $1… Read More

March 10, 2021 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Soros Fund Management, New York Life, and Morgan Stanley have decided to team up with Stone Ridge Holdings, Massmutual, FS Investments, and Bessemer Venture Partners in order to make investments in a Bitcoin or BTC-focused investment firm, called NYDIG. The group will be working on… Read More

February 22, 2021 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A restaurant owner based in New York City has been trying to sell his two bars for Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency. Patrick Hughes had put his side-by-side bars in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, Scruffy Duffy’s and Hellcat Annie’s, up for sale last month. Hughes… Read More

October 9, 2020 @ 10:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) announced on Thursday it is set to acquire Eaton Vance, an advanced investment strategies and wealth management solutions provider with more than $500 billion in assets under management (AUM), for an equity value of approximately $7 billion. Morgan Stanley reported… Read More

March 5, 2020 @ 6:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jay Biancamano, the managing director and digital currency lead at giant custodian bank State Street, has argued that crypto assets will assist the private capital market in becoming the global standard for trading within the next 10 years. During a recent episode of The Block’s… Read More

February 20, 2020 @ 7:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), one of the most storied investment banks on Wall Street, will purchase retail online brokerage ETrade (NASDAQ:ETFC) for $13 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, ETrade shareholders will receive 1.0432 Morgan Stanley shares for each ETrade share, which represents per share… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 10:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Morgan Stanley announced on Thursday the launch of CashPlus, which is described as a new brokerage account that offers clients a “modern alternative” to banking. According to Morgan Stanley, the CashPlus Account replaces the Premier Cash Management program. The account offers two account types, the… Read More

December 4, 2019 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

A group of former Morgan Stanley executives is launching a crypto derivatives exchange in a move to rival the CME. Phemex, a trading platform that claims to be able to manage 300,000 TPS, is said to be on par with the technical capabilities of the… Read More

March 15, 2019 @ 11:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

iCapital Network, a US fintech platform democratizing alternative investments for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors, announced on Friday it has formed a partnership with Morgan Stanley to provide alternative investment feeder fund services. It was revealed that the alternative investments feeder fund business transferring to… Read More

December 23, 2018 @ 9:40 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The cryptocurrency mania of 2017 was impossible for Wall Street to ignore, but a mainstream avalanche into crypto is easier said than done, and a stampede of clients demanding crypto-based products from their institutional brokers just hasn’t materialized yet, Bloomberg reports. “The market had unrealistic… Read More

April 27, 2018 @ 10:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) announced on Thursday it is set to host its inaugural Canada Technology Start-up Day at its Montreal Technology Centre today. The financial giant reported that the invitation-only event is providing some of Canada’s most promising emerging technology companies with the opportunity for… Read More

November 9, 2017 @ 9:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management announced on Thursday the launch of its new person-to-person payments service called Morgan Stanley Send Money with Zelle.  According to Morgan Stanley, the service enables its clients to send money and receive money from almost anyone with a U.S. bank account using the… Read More

June 20, 2017 @ 7:20 am By Jonathan Nieh  |  

In a recent report titled “Blockchain: Unchained?”, Morgan Stanley details its hesitance towards Bitcoin and outlines its belief that in order for Bitcoin to see continued growth, more regulations need to be enacted. While Morgan Stanley does have high hopes for blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin,… Read More

February 27, 2017 @ 2:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prosper Marketplace, one of the leading online lenders in the US, has signed an agreement with a group of institutional investors to purchase up to $5 billion in loans over the next 24 months. The agreement alleviates a challenging situation that has been endured by… Read More

January 10, 2017 @ 11:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Addepar announced on Tuesday it formed a partnership with Morgan Stanley to deliver its investment management platform to Morgan Stanley’s private wealth management teams.  Morgan Stanley private wealth management teams will reportedly use Addepar’s data aggregation, performance reporting and client portal to do sophisticated analysis and… Read More

October 14, 2016 @ 10:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Affirm has received a $100 million lending facility from Morgan Stanley. Affirm will use the new capital to expand its Point of Sale (PoS) financing to more retailers. The company stated it expects to triple its loan volume for the year. Affirm was launched by… Read More

August 24, 2016 @ 5:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

As part of the rebuilding process Lending Club (NYSE:LC) is seeking out new hires with traditional Wall Street cred.  Today the leading marketplace lending firm has hired not one, but two former Wall Street bankers. Lending Club has appointed Valerie Kay, formerly an MD with Morgan… Read More

September 14, 2015 @ 7:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PeerIQ, a financial information services company that connects peer-to-peer (“P2P”) lending to the capital markets by helping institutional investors analyze, access and manage risk, today announced that it raised $2.5 million in a seed-extension round. Participants in the round include new investor and customer Victory… Read More

April 10, 2015 @ 9:15 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PeerIQ, a financial information services company that connects peer-to-peer lending to the capital markets by helping institutional investors analyze, access and manage risk, today announced that it has raised $6 million of seed funding. Uprising and John Mack, former chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley, led the… Read More

December 16, 2014 @ 4:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lending Club (NYSE: LC) an online marketplace the connects borrowers and investors, announced on Tuesday (December 16th) the closing of its initial public offering and the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase an additional 8,700,000 shares from Lending Club. After the underwriters’… Read More